Software development techniques are continuously evolving with the goal of solving the main problems that still affect the building and maintenance of software systems: time, cost...
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...
—Current research on code clones tries to address the question whether or not code clones are harmful for the quality of software. As most of these studies are based on the fine...
Nicolas Bettenburg, Weiyi Shang, Walid Ibrahim, Br...
Modular and flexible software components can be useful for reuse across a class of domain-specific applications or product lines. By varying the composition of components suited t...
M. Brian Blake, Kevin Cleary, Sohan Ranjan, Luis I...
In this paper we address the problem of combining software components with different and possibly incompatible legal licenses to create a software application that does not viola...